This might help a little:
From here: https://www.themountaineer.com/
Looks like one of these:
Answering my own question, likely part of a SpaceX Dragon.
The trunk, specifically. That’s a cylindrical piece that is attached behind the capsule portion and carries extra cargo. You can sorta see how it matches up here:
The trunk is made of carbon fiber and is ejected before the deorbit burn. Which means it stays in orbit until the atmosphere brings it down, which will be in a random place. Usually over the ocean just due to probability, but sometimes land.
The only other carbon fiber piece that I know of that sometimes survives reentry are the carbon overwrapped pressure vessels–basically carbon fiber bottles. They mostly land still looking like a bottle. So that’s not what they have here.
SpaceX could possibly perform a burn that would ensure the trunk would reenter over the ocean, though I don’t know if they have enough propellant for that.
Clearly alien chest plate armor.
You mean somebody wants to keep the alien inside their chest?
New debris in Kenya. A big ring.
88 pounds? Wonder how fast it was going when it hit. Something like that could really mess up your day!
The gods must be angry !!
I would be too if I lost my cock ring.
Looks like the paw of Mecha King Kong.
TIL that Kenya has a Space Agency. Who knew?
Jazz Bashara, for one.
Yeah, surre.
Anyone who’s seen 1950s outer space movies knows this is the kind of misleading announcement officials make, right before giant wooly three-headed centipedes overrun the village.
When I saw “KSA” in the article, for a moment I thought it referred to “Kitten Space Agency,” the hopeful successor to KSP.
Kenya is on the equator, right? [A cursory lookup— I mean Wikipedia— says that the Broglio Space Center is now de-mothballed for upcoming launches, for example.]
Also, a viable space program does not require quadrillions of dollars, or whatever else is implied here. You and a couple of your friends could start your own space program: it is really not all that expensive to launch, e.g., a 3U cubesat.
SpaceX continues to be a litterbug.
Yeah, unfortunately there have been a few upper stage failures recently that resulted in an uncontrolled deorbit. Usually these are intended to reenter over the ocean, but without the deorbit burn it comes down in an effectively random spot, which might be over land.
The SpaceX failure rate is still quite low, but their launch rate is so high that the total amount ends up being non-negligible. Well, hopefully SpaceX will pay for the guy’s damaged light fixture.
I haven’t heard any reason yet for the failure in this case. The FAA stated that it wouldn’t result in an investigation, presumably because even an uncontrolled reentry has small odds of causing injury, which is mostly what they’re focused on. Still, it would be nice to have an answer.